The U.S. Air Force’s $3.5 billion budgetary wish list for fiscal 2025 includes more funds for spare parts to get grounded planes back in the air, and seeks resources to be able to deploy more personnel and fighter jets.
The unfunded priorities list the service submitted to Congress, dated March 21, asks for another $1.5 billion to restock spare parts; $612 million to create nine new deployable…
FORT IRWIN, Calif. — Looking like a toy helicopter, a small black drone rose up over a cluster of adobe buildings in a quiet desert village, emitting a faint buzz.
The drone, an Anduril Industries’ Ghost-X, paused and then rose higher, disappearing into the clouds.
The U.S. Navy sent lawmakers a $2.2 billion wish list for fiscal 2025, which includes several items that would fill in gaps that arose this year due to high-tempo operations in the Red Sea and Congress not yet passing a supplemental spending bill.
This unfunded priorities…
The top executive at embattled plane-maker Boeing will step down this year amid a broader shakeup of the company’s top leadership, capping a tumultuous five plus years that has shaken faith in one of America’s most storied manufacturers.
Boeing is the fifth-largest company in the world based on defense revenue, with the Top 100 list noting 46% of its total revenue in 2022 came from defense…
Outsourcing Navy shipbuilding weakens the United States
March 22, 2024
The Pentagon’s first-ever industrial base strategy is rightly looking to address critical areas of America’s supply chain resilience, workforce readiness, flexible acquisition and economic deterrence.But rather than looking to invest in American shipbuilding and repair…
As the Defense Innovation Unit takes on a more central role in the Pentagon’s innovation ecosystem, Congress is proposing a nearly $800 million boost to the organization’s funding in fiscal 2024.
House and Senate appropriators released a compromise version of the fiscal…
PARIS — Delivery disruptions for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter are creating a headache for European buyers, as some countries face a potential capacity gap and delays in training pilots and maintenance engineers.
Denmark is exploring how to deal with a slipping delivery schedule, including possibly borrowing or buying aircraft from other F-35 users. Norway said there’s a risk full operational…
The U.S. Army is poised to be the largest player in the first round of Replicator projects, according to the service’s top acquisition official.
Doug Bush, assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition, logistics and technology, told an audience at the Ronald Reagan…
The U.S. Navy sets a fleet goal of 381 ships, up from 373, in a new long-range shipbuilding plan.
The service expects to reach this goal by 2042 if it can grow both its shipbuilding budget and the industrial base’s capacity, it says in the document.
The Navy had previously…
The U.S. Air Force and two main contractors on the LGM-35A Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile program on Saturday tested the solid-rocket motor that will power the nuclear weapon’s third stage.
The test, which also involved Northrop Grumman and Aerojet Rocketdyne, took place in a closed chamber at the Arnold Engineering Development Complex in Tennessee. It followed static fire tests of…
